We must do more than simply reauthorize a troubled, inefficient system.
There is significant support, of course, for reauthorizing the Indian Health Care Improvement Act.
We need to act in a quick way, as well as a cooperative way so that Indian Country does not get left behind.
I think it would be really the answer for the future.
This is a very important hearing, as the health care debate continues nationwide.
I expect a significant amount of work is going to be done this summer.
We are doing better for the severely injured in Iraq across a system of 8,000 miles than we are in rural Nebraska.
What we really need is a needs assessment to get an accurate picture of what the population looks like.
Are there bureaucratic barriers? Or how do we get this accomplished in a timely manner?
The issues to be examined this afternoon are not new, but have recently taken on additional significance in light of the...
Could we then go to that question of the water?